Family Quotes
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I write poetry to figure things out. It's what I use as a navigating tool in my life, so when there's something that I just can't understand, I have to "poem" my way through it. For that reason I write a lot about family, because my family confuses me and I'm always trying to figure them out. I write a lot about love, because love is continually confusing in all of its many glorious aspects.
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I wouldn't say I'm fixated on describing any kind of relationship whether it is a father and a son, or a family. I don't like it when people say that I'm particularly following the same line or that I'm only interested in family dramas. I'm interested in human relationships. The most intimate, the most delicate, and the most intriguing relationships are those within a family.
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Family life got better and we got our car back - as soon as we put 'I love Mom' on the license plate.
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Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.
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Obviously [my daughters] - and Michelle - have made a lot of sacrifices on behalf of my cockamamie ideas, the running for office and things.
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I never really had to deal with a death in the family, let alone my brother.
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When you’re a child, you think your family works in a straight line. Then you get older and find out where the curves are.
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My sister's a musician. Everyone else in our family, it's either academics or artists of one kind or another. And those are the people that I think I like to hang out with, too. I think, you know, they're always interesting; they lead interesting lives, and I think they're important for everyone to read about because everyone is an artist in a way.
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A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second floor is every family member's room. They enjoy listening to music and reading books. On the first underground floor is the ruin of people's memories. The room filled with darkness is the second underground floor.
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My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.
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A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.
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At the core of IFS is the notion that the mind of each of us is like a family in which the members have different levels of maturity, excitability, wisdom, and pain. The parts form a network or system in which change in any one part will affect all the others.
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Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.
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And I come from a small Vietnamese family. We're really close too, all ten of us.
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When I was growing up, I heard horror stories about producers losing their houses overnight. No matter who the family is, hearing of them getting evicted is very sad.
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We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into the celestial family.
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There was a time when cell animation was poison, but after Family Guy now everyone wants it.
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Any free time I have, the family comes first.
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I'm always open to meeting people, but I would be lying if I didn't say that my trust issues have changed because of 'Modern Family.'
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Traveling makes a vacation lose all appeal. You would never want to take the family to a European city. You travel a lot, but it's a job.
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My two sisters and I had a very nice nanny at home in Morocco until I was 13. I remember my parents saying how she had insinuated herself into our family. They knew she would suffer when we broke away from her.
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Daddy's working boots have taken many steps for us.
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Definitely has been the strangest birthday I’ve had but I’m grateful for another year and for the love from all my family, friends and everyone today..in times like this I’m grateful to have my loved ones with me…
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The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.
